Once you learn the basics, try just reading through your favorite open source project. I find it to be most helpful to read other people's code to get better at

Once you learn the basics, try just reading through your favorite open source project. I find it to be most helpful to read other people's code to get better at understanding the innards of a language. Also, make changes, rework it, add debugging info, go nuts! Reading and especially editing the code of others is a great way to learn a language, imho. Just pick something that people accept as well-engineered or at least popular enough such that enough developers saw the code to make it correct and 'pythonic'.